Re: Re: Help with insight into urodynamic test

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My neurologist said there are two types of neurogenic

bladder, flaccid and spastic.

Flaccid bladder is a floppy bladder, no muscle tone,

no feeling, no ability to go. Spastic bladder is kind

of self-explanatory.

Mine is flaccid. I can't feel when I have to go, no

muscle moves when my bladder is full. My bladder got

way fuller before the urologist stopped. The first

urologist put the equivalent of three 12 oz cans of

soda into my bladder, or more than 1000 cc. I can

easily fill up 800 cc container now if I forget to go

to the bathroom. Easily. I never feel like I have to

go, and I never actually can go without great strain,

which is why I cath.

I have to remember the language, and I'm betting

can help me with this. Nerves have a top and a bottom

- flaccid bladder means bottom damage, spastic bladder

means top damage. Does that sound right, ? It

was 8 years ago, so I'm just forgetting the proper

terms.

--- Amy wrote:

> I have had this test done and so have both of my

> children. I also worked at a dr.'s office and use to

> assist with this test.

>

> They filled my bladder to 500 cc and I did not feel

> the urge to go. They determined that my brain did

> not get the message in the correct amount of time

> (or at all) when my bladder was full. My son's

> outcome was the same except he got to 600 cc. They

> said we have very large bladders because we don't

> pee very often because we don't know we need to and

> it stretched our bladders.

> My daughters outcome was different. She would have

> bladder spasms by 200 cc and leak and she did not

> feel it.

> We were all diagnosed with " neurogenic bladders "

>

>

> Amy L.

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,

I wonder if there can be some hybrid of the two? I was told I have a floppy

(flacicd) bladder. I have held up to 1800 cc's on one occassion. Around

then, my average max would range from 1000-1200 cc Now that I have been

cathing regularly, it has gotten much better and my max is down to about

600-700cc before it just can't hold anymore and the sphincter opens up and

releases on its own. But, I also have spasms. After my paralysis, I always

had the feeling that I kind of had to go. Granted I could tell the

difference between this feeling and the real feeling that I had to go, but

it sure was annoying and I would always worry about leaking. Welcome

Ditropan, which solved the problem. So, I guess there has to be some kind of

combination of the two -- or what is wrong with me? mutant bladder? LOL

It wouldn't surprise me one bit.

Jenn

> My neurologist said there are two types of neurogenic

> bladder, flaccid and spastic.

>

> Flaccid bladder is a floppy bladder, no muscle tone,

> no feeling, no ability to go. Spastic bladder is kind

> of self-explanatory.

>

> Mine is flaccid. I can't feel when I have to go, no

> muscle moves when my bladder is full. My bladder got

> way fuller before the urologist stopped. The first

> urologist put the equivalent of three 12 oz cans of

> soda into my bladder, or more than 1000 cc. I can

> easily fill up 800 cc container now if I forget to go

> to the bathroom. Easily. I never feel like I have to

> go, and I never actually can go without great strain,

> which is why I cath.

>

> I have to remember the language, and I'm betting

> can help me with this. Nerves have a top and a bottom

> - flaccid bladder means bottom damage, spastic bladder

> means top damage. Does that sound right, ? It

> was 8 years ago, so I'm just forgetting the proper

> terms.

>

>

>

>

> --- Amy <amyindemand@... <amyindemand%40yahoo.com>> wrote:

>

> > I have had this test done and so have both of my

> > children. I also worked at a dr.'s office and use to

> > assist with this test.

> >

> > They filled my bladder to 500 cc and I did not feel

> > the urge to go. They determined that my brain did

> > not get the message in the correct amount of time

> > (or at all) when my bladder was full. My son's

> > outcome was the same except he got to 600 cc. They

> > said we have very large bladders because we don't

> > pee very often because we don't know we need to and

> > it stretched our bladders.

> > My daughters outcome was different. She would have

> > bladder spasms by 200 cc and leak and she did not

> > feel it.

> > We were all diagnosed with " neurogenic bladders "

> >

> >

> > Amy L.

> > " You must be the change you wish to see in the

> > world " ~Gandhi

> >

> >

> > ---------------------------------

> > Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your homepage.

> >

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> > removed]

> >

> >

>

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